Chapter LXII. making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department, for the fiscal year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-five
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Chap. LXII.— An Act making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department, for the fiscal year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-five.June 15, 1844. [Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums of Appropriations. money be, and the same are hereby appropriated for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending on the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-five, out of any moneys in the treasury arising from the revenues of the said department, in conformity to the act July 2, 1836, ch. 270. of second July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, viz:
For transportation of the mail, three millions one hundred and fifty Transportation of mail. thousand dollars; For compensation to postmasters, nine hundred and fifty thousand Compensation to postmasters. dollars; For ship, steamboat, and way letters, twenty-two thousand dollars;Letters. For wrapping paper, eighteen thousand dollars;Wrapping paper. For office furniture, (for the offices of postmasters,) seven thousand Office furniture. dollars; For advertising, thirty-two thousand dollars;Advertising.
For mail-bags, eighteen thousand dollars;Mail-bags, &c. For blanks, twenty-five thousand dollars;Blanks. For mail-locks, keys and stamps, ten thousand dollars;Mail-locks, &c. For mail depredations and special agents, twenty-eight thousand dollars;Mail depredations, &c. For clerks for offices (for the offices of postmasters,) two hundred Clerks for offices. and fifteen thousand dollars; For miscellaneous, fifty-five thousand dollars.Miscellaneous. Approved, June 15, 1844.